Mr Desmond warns of “Ballymun Towers South Dublin” and “modern-day slums”
The full letter sent this week to local politicians from billionaire Dermot Desmond concerning the development of RTÉ land close to his property on Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4.
Mr Desmond threatens to use his “resources” to challenge fast-track planning laws being applied to build 611 apartments on the site “all the way to the European Courts”.
Fight!
Previously: Room To Improve
This week in 1919 the House of Lords was told that the slums in Dublin were a disgrace to the UK https://t.co/ZErt24gEsM pic.twitter.com/w3YyztJ1e2
— Century Ireland (@CenturyIRL) July 23, 2019
Meanwhile, in 1919…
The House of Lords has been told that before the government introduced an Irish housing bill, it should first have brought forward a bill dealing specifically with Dublin, as its slums were ‘a disgrace to the United Kingdom’.
Supporting the bill, Lord Mayo agreed with the Lord Chancellor’s comments on the Dublin situation, adding:
‘The working classes and the poor in that town live in the most wretched way. They live in houses which were built for gentlefolk in the eighteenth century. They are totally unsuitable, and the sanitary arrangements are practically nil.’
‘It is a town which is a disgrace, and if the government do not see that it is properly dealt with will be a very serious matter. The people there live in a filthy state, and people who are badly housed are the prey of every sort of agitator, and of every kind of wickedness you can imagine connected with agitation.’
But we were happy.
Dublin slums a disgrace to UK, House of Lords is told (Century Ireland)
